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Format: Quality Paperback
Publisher: Random House Trade
Published: Mar 2008
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Retail Price: $19.00
Pages: 561
Just before dawn one winter's morning, a hijacked jetliner explodes above the English Channel. Through the falling debris, two figures, Gibreel Farishta, the biggest star in India, and Saladin Chamcha, an expatriate returning from his first visit to Bombay in fifteen years, plummet from the sky, washing up on the snow-covered sands of an English beach, and proceed through a series of metamorphoses, dreams, and revelations.
This book is the classic by the well known author, Salman Rushdie. Give yourself plenty of time and have plenty of patience if you want to tackle this book. You cant read it with distractions around you, you'll lose your train of thought quickly. This book is very wordy, filled with bright descriptions of fantasy, dreams, and myths of the East Indian culture. I have read that this book is reviled by some of the more militant Muslims, and it has been printed more than once that there is a death sentence upon him for what he has written in this book. There is more than one plot line in this book and it switches back and forth with little warning. The names, descriptions,myths,religious references, all are complex and woven together. This book will be a challenge for you, but you will undoubtedly be enriched by reading it.